1: Bad Ideas About What Good Writing is ... Last updated Save as PDF Page ID 65255 Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. West Virginia University via Digital Publishing Institute and West Virginia University Libraries 1.1: Rhetoric is Synonymous with Empty Speech 1.2: America is Facing a Literacy Crisis 1.3: First-Year Composition Prepares Students For Academic Writing 1.4: First-Year Composition Should Be Skipped 1.5: You Can Learn to Write in General 1.6: Writing Knowledge Transfers Easily 1.7: Reading and Writing is Not Connected 1.8: Reading is Not Essential to Writing Instruction